Word: error
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...poll, conducted by Peter Hart Research Associates, interviewed 500 people and had a 5 percent potential margin of error...
Cold coffee. Last-minute plans. Calls that are not made and many that are not answered. Primary campaigns are usually studies in tension, turmoil, trial and error. Not George Bush's campaign. The Vice President, more than any other contender in either party, has an organization that functions like a finely tuned machine. The campaign is always a reflection of the candidate, but sometimes the candidate seems to be no more than the end product of an enormously intricate mechanism...
Something of the same error of premature judgment occurred with Franklin Roosevelt. As he took office in 1933, F.D.R. hardly seemed a savior to anyone. Edmund Wilson wrote at the time that Roosevelt was a decent man, but "was there anything durable...
Please allow me to correct a factual error which appeared in your article on Women's History Week (March 8). You repeat, without comment, a statement that the History Department has made "absolutely no commitment to bringing in a women's historian." In fact, we have among our permanent members an eminent women's historian, Professor Olwen Hufton. I believe that Dr. Michel knows this, as certainly did your reporter, because I mentioned it to him when we spoke. I should like to add that the History Department has been co-sponsoring Women's History Week for some years. Angeliki...
Thomas had aimed to evoke the fiery spirit of the composer's music right from the start. But as she opened her 4-min. program with a daring combination of back-to-back triple toe loops, she mistakenly touched both feet down on the second jump. That tiny error seemed to sap her usual strength. When, midway through her routine, she faltered and put a hand on the ice, it began to feel as though the Titanic were sinking. Witt, conversely, had held tough, her Carmen enticing and flirting shamelessly. Radiant in a red costume, Witt thrived on audience adulation...